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a clean FARM BILL of
health
America is not eating well. And we’re all paying for it.
Each year, diet-related sicknesses cost
$72 billion.Half of this due to people not eating enough fruits and vegetables.
cancerheart diseasediabetesstroke
Our government suggests we eat healthy, balanced meals.
But farm bill spending
doesn’t reflect these
recommendations.
$33.1 billion spent on commodity crops corn
soybeanscottonricewheat
$4.3 billion spent on specialty crops
fruitsnutsvegetables
Shifting 10% of commodity subsidies into fruit & vegetable purchasing programs
Shifting 10% of commodity subsidies into fruit & vegetable purchasing programs would pay for doubling fruits & veggies in US school food programs.And meet proposed new USDA school lunch guidelines.
This farm bill will shape our nation’s health
for the next 5 years.
Let’s get the farm bill in shape – now.
Support local, sustainable fruit & vegetable farmers.
For info on how you can help out:
Environmental Working Group
Food & Water Watch
Food + Tech Connect
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Sustainable Table
RESOURCESThe $33 billion & $4.1 billion we mentioned were spent from 2008-2010.
Fruit and Vegetable Intake Among Adolescents and Adults in the United States: Percentage Meeting Individualized Recommendations: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2654704
Produce for Better Health Foundation, The Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Challenge:http://www.pbhfoundation.org/pdfs/about/res/pbh_res/2010gapanalysis.pdf
EWG farm subsidy database and unpublished EWG research on fruit, nut and vegetable spending.“Healthy School Lunch: Pay Now, Save Later”:http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2011/01/healthy-school-food-pay-now-save-later
For more info, contact
Kari Hamerschlag ([email protected])
Rebecca Klein ([email protected])
clean BILL of health is a product of the Farm Bill Hackathon and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at farmbillhack.wikispaces.com on Dec. 4, 2011; created in a collaboration by Jamie Leo, Trey Shelton, Peter Krohmer, Illya Bomash, and Henry Lau, with the onsite support from Rebecca Klein of Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and Kari Hamerschlag of Environmental Working Group.
Additional support from GRACE Communications Foundation.